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J. M BLACKBURN. TABLE GASTER FOR DINING CARS.

Patented Nov. 21, 1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN M. BLACKBURN, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLES S. PERKINS, OF SAME PLACE.

TABLE-CASTER FOR DINING-CARS. I

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 267,830, dated November 21, 1882. Application filed October 19, 1885.. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN M. BLACKBURN, of Meridernin the county ot'New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented new Improvements in Table-Casters for Dining-Cars; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a front view with the door closed; Fig. 2, a front View with the door open; Fig. 3, a vertical central section.

1 This invention relates to a caster for the table of dining-cars. In dining-cars the tables are necessarily small, affording but little room for tablefurniture. Numerous devices have been made for casters to contain the bottles necessary for the furnishing of the table; but in any case they are inconvenient because of the room they occupy on the table, and also the room which is required for them in the pantries when not in use.

The object of my invention is to provide a caster-frame as a fixed part of the car independent of the table, and which occupies no otherwise available room in the car; and it consists in a recess in the wall of the car between 0 the windows and above the table with fixed receivers therein to hold the bottles, and as more fully hereinafter described.

A represents one of the panels between the windows of a car. At about the top of the recess, 13, formed therein. This recess may be surrounded by an ornamental frame, C, inclosing a mirror, D, and this mirror may be attached to the upper part, E, of the frame, and that part of the frame detached from the other three sides, and the mirror guided in the two sides so as to be raised and expose the opening, as seen in Fig. 2. 'Thewalls of this recess I prefer to make in imitation of silver or other fine metal, or may be with a mirror-back. In this recess I fix the frames or supports a for the several bottles. The supports for the bottles may be constructed in any desirable shape or design, so as to receive the bottles in similar manner to a common table caster an d- I permit their easy removal therefrom. When not required for use the front is closed, as seen in Figs. 1 and 3, and the panel shows only the mirror; but when the table is set and the casttable an opening is made into the wall and aers are required it is only necessary to raise the front or door and the casters are exposed. By'this arrangement the caster occupies no room on the table,does not require to be transclose the bottle, as seen at d, Fig. 2, and mak- 7o ing the ring elastic and of slightly smaller diameter than the bottle, so as to closely embrace the bottle when inserted therein.

One or more of the holders may be of sufficient size to support a wine or other bottle, which would otherwise necessarily stand upon the table, and being thus held it is out of the Way and not liable to be upset. I do not wish therefore to be understood as limiting my invention by the termfcaster to devices to hold simply condiments required for table use; but

What I claim is 1. A metal case constructed and adapted for introduction into the wall of an apartment provided internally with holders for the bottles required for table use, substantially as described.

2. A caster for dining-cars, consisting of a recess in the wall of the car provided with 0 holders for bottles required for table use, substantially as described.

3. A caster for dining-cars,consisting of a recess in the wall of the car provided with holders for bottles required for table use, the 5 holders constructed to support the bottles with a yielding grasp'or pressure, substantially as described.

. 4. A caster for dining-cars, consisting of a recessin the wall of the car provided with holders for bottles required for table use, combined with a vertical sliding door to open or close said recess, substantially as described.

JOHN M. BLACKBURN. 

